{"id":20115,"date":"2011-07-10T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2011-07-10T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:51:01","slug":"for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=20115","title":{"rendered":"For a Good Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night Michael and I got dolled up for a benefit. Michael’s coworker, Jerry, found out recently he had a brain tumor. They operated and things seemed okay, then he got the bad news: terminal. I cannot even imagine how Jerry and his wife and family took the news. I know I wouldn’t take news like that well for anyone in my life. I was so happy that Michael’s company decided to throw a benefit for Jerry. The company rented a trendy warehouse space<\/a>\u00a0and threw an amazing<\/em>\u00a0party!<\/p>\n

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The company went ALL OUT. I am so impressed, and touched at the outpouring of support for Jerry. His wife decided to go on leave from her job to spend the last few months she can with her husband. I am so glad that I could play a part in this and donate money to the cause.\u00a0First up: the FOOD. Holy cow. Was it good!<\/p>\n

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\nThere were a bunch of big BBQ’s outside the building and there were ribs, chicken legs and brisket.<\/p>\n

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\nEverything was by “donation” and all proceeds go to Jerry. I happily forked over money for drinks and dinner. It was good eatin’! Michael got the rib dinner–it came with bread and coleslaw. I got the brisket sandwich with BBQ beans. Confession<\/em>: What I REALLY wanted was the BBQ chicken leg but it looked super messy to eat and I didn’t want to get all messy in front of Michael’s coworkers. I regretted not getting the chicken though. Another Confession:<\/em>\u00a0I ended up buying some chicken “to go” and I ate one of those chicken legs when we got home. And it was AMAZING. By far the BEST BBQ chicken I’ve had in my entire life. I will be dreaming about that chicken for years.<\/p>\n

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Michael's Dinner<\/p><\/div>\n

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My Dinner<\/p><\/div>\n

There was also entertainment! There were belly dancers:<\/p>\n

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And a REALLY good blues band. I kid you not: these kids couldn’t have been over 18 years old and they were mastering complicated blues songs like pros. They played original songs and a bunch of covers that blew me away (and impressed Michael who HATES blues music and is also a musician).<\/p>\n

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And there was a photo booth too! Michael and I took a shift running the photo booth and it was super fun. We even got some pictures taken too.<\/p>\n

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Plus, I finally got to meet Seth Aaron<\/a>. You may recognize the name from Project Runway–he won last season!<\/a>\u00a0I’m not really a groupie-type but I did want to meet Seth because I LOVED his clothes on Project Runway. They were gothic and dark<\/a>–just what I like! Oh and Michael works with Seth Aaron! (Which is why we watched that season of Project Runway.)<\/p>\n

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Seth Aaron and Me<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nSeth was the MC for the night. There were also raffles and silent auctions. Michael donated a soccer jersey to the cause:<\/p>\n

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Seth Aaron's Donation<\/p><\/div>\n

There were TONS of things on auction. Lots of fun, cool things plus amazing art. I put my name down for a few things but sadly I was out-bid.<\/p>\n

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\nThere were so many good things that coworkers donated to the cause to be bid on. I ended up buying a bowl that Jerry made by hand:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd I also bought some photography from another coworker:<\/p>\n

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\nIt was such a nice night. I was impressed with how many people turned out. It made me have a renewed outlook on humanity after a week of experiences that left me feeling like people are black at heart. I saw that there are places where coworkers care about each other and do things to help each other–especially in a time of need. What an amazing place Michael works at.<\/p>\n

As the night wore on I got more and more tired and SORE from Saturday’s workout. We called it a night and I happily went home to bed, glad I could contribute to someone’s life to make it a little easier.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Do you do anything for charity?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday night Michael and I got dolled up for a benefit. Michael’s coworker, Jerry, found out recently he had a brain tumor. They operated and things seemed okay, then he got the bad news: terminal. I cannot even imagine how Jerry and his wife and family took the news. I know I wouldn’t take news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33,3296,48,1621,75,315,85,86,104,134,167,169,201,2973,250],"tags":[3807,8584,3804,1946,8770,522,3805,3806,3808],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8159.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20150,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions\/20150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}